Tag Archives: Installation
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | Translating Ai Weiwei: Bringing Chinese Social Media Art to the English Twittersphere, Part 1
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | Translating Ai Weiwei: Bringing Chinese Social Media Art to the English Twittersphere, Part 1
Artist Ai Weiwei in conversation with Tate Modern curator Katie Hill, October 2010. Photo by An Xiao. This past summer, Jennifer Ng and I launched Bird’s Nest: Ai Weiwei in …
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision: Food and Technology in an Art Lab
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision: Food and Technology in an Art Lab
Last month, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York turned their main exhibition space into X-Lab, a “living” work space where the public can interact with Eyebeam’s fellows and …
Art21 Extended Play
Allan McCollum: “Over Ten Thousand Individual Works”
Art21 Extended Play
Allan McCollum: “Over Ten Thousand Individual Works”
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #129: Filmed in his Brooklyn studio, Allan McCollum reveals the process and logic behind the project Over Ten Thousand …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Carin Kuoni of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Carin Kuoni of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
For six years, Carin Kuoni has been director of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School in New York City. I wanted to pose my …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | A Fresh Path at the Met: A Discussion with Kendra E. Roth
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | A Fresh Path at the Met: A Discussion with Kendra E. Roth
Indianapolis Museum of Art conservator speaks with Metropolitan Museum conservator Kendra Roth about ancient chariots, fish, and kinetic sculptures, among other things.
Art21 Extended Play
Paul McCarthy: “Black & White Tapes”
Art21 Extended Play
Paul McCarthy: “Black & White Tapes”
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #128: Interviewed in his Los Angeles studio, Paul McCarthy discusses the genesis of his Black and White Tapes (1970–75), …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Seen and Felt
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Seen and Felt
When I first encountered the warm voluptuousness of Mary Cassatt’s paintings, it annoyed me. Then I realized the artist had never married, living much of her life frequenting Paris salons, …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Hard Conversations (Exploring Inequality)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Hard Conversations (Exploring Inequality)
In the New York Times last week, Nicholas Kristof reported that the richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of the income, up from 9 percent …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment: Disciplinary Complex
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment: Disciplinary Complex
Over the past few decades, “interdisciplinary” has emerged as a popular designation in academic culture, particularly in the arts and humanities. Both as an undergraduate in studio art and as …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Feathers, Magic Mushrooms and Bicycle Tours
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Feathers, Magic Mushrooms and Bicycle Tours
Bundle up, Berlin: winter is almost here, and it might be a long one, again. If you haven’t fallen prey to the sniffling, the sneezing, the nose-blowing and coughing, germ-spreading …
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Time of Your Life
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Time of Your Life
Christian Marclay’s The Clock (now on show at White Cube, Mason’s Yard) is a twenty-four hour long film which, unlike other very long art films like Douglas Gordon’s Twenty-Four Hour …
Art21 Extended Play
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
William Kentridge: Studio Manager Anne McIlleron
Art21 Extended Play
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
William Kentridge: Studio Manager Anne McIlleron
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE In celebration of Art21’s new feature film William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible — which premiered nationally on October 21, 2010 …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Considering Gravity’s Loom: A Discussion with Ball-Nogues
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Considering Gravity’s Loom: A Discussion with Ball-Nogues
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with the Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues (Ball-Nogues Studio) about their recent installation, Gravity’s Loom, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Temporary Services
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Temporary Services
Art21 is pleased to announce our latest column: 5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice), written by guest blog alum Thom Donovan (bio here). 5 Questions showcases the work of contemporary practitioners …
Flash Points
Experience at the Mattress Factory
Flash Points
Experience at the Mattress Factory
As an institution that exhibits contemporary, site-specific installation art through a fully supported artist residency program, we only ever get to experience exhibitions for a few months and then they …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Four for Fall
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Four for Fall
Traditionally, fall is the time when galleries launch their new slate of exhibitions after a relatively slow-paced couple of summer months. Galleries tend to highlight some of the most prominent …